Truth

Ukraine, 9-28-26

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Links to a report from the Associated Press and to a commentary via Informed Comment; others are accessible by clicking on its name or initials. (Scroll down for today’s LEBANON, GAZA, WEST BANK, IRAN, YEMEN and ALL OF IT, and for UKRAINE 9-25-26.) — MCM

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Russian drones hammer apartments, offices and a cultural landmark in Ukraine, killing 7, by Hanna Arhirova and Barry Hatton | AP  KYIV — Russia’s round-the-clock bombardment of targets in Ukraine killed at least seven people and wounded more than 50 others, officials said today. Click HERE for report including photos Click HERE for same AP report in Spanish, and HERE for others.

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FROM SEPT. 26  The rule of the sophists, the reign of untruth, by Hugh J. Curran | University of Maine / Special to Informed Comment   ORONO, Maine – In classical Greek “opinion” is referred to as “doxa” with a clear distinction between “doxa” and “truth” (alethia). We have a President in the U.S. who gives daily information by way of a news program called “Truth Social.” “Truth”, to him, seems . . . READ MORE . . .

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Letter

A letter to the editor in this morning’s Berkshire Eagle,* headed “Learning leads to truth in ignorant times,” reads as follows:

“Look to knowledge for truth, seeking ever for righteousness, unlike some who wallow in deliberate ignorance and stumble into twittering lies.

“I would hope that my children and many others would look to and promote learning as the true path revealing truth, rather than be absorbed by floods of propagandistic tweets in ignorant repetitiveness!

“Open our minds, Lord, that we may see and hear your designed laws of science that correctly lead toward peace and comfort for all, and a seasonal prayer of obedience and faith.”

[signed] Fritz Doerring, [town of] Adams

— Mark

* The daily newspaper in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, second-to-last town on a walk Bruce and I took last spring from Provincetown to the New York State line at Hancock to call attention to the need for a real investigation into the mass murders and destruction of Sept. 11, 2001.